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  • Charity rally to support Phuket Stray Dog Shelter

    Charity rally to support Phuket Stray Dog Shelter

    PHUKET: The sixth “Rally Dogkar” charity fundraiser will take place in Phuket this weekend, giving dog lovers and their pampered pets a chance to raise money for about 500 less-fortunate animals cooped up at the provincial dog pound in Thalang.

  • Phuket Prison gates swing open for mothers’ hugs

    Phuket Prison gates swing open for mothers’ hugs

    PHUKET: The gates of Phuket Provincial Prison will be open on August 15 and 16 to enable mothers to hug their children inside the facility in honor of HM Queen Sirikit’s 80th birthday on August 12. During those two days, mothers will be allowed to visit their inmate children, and inmates‘ children will be allowed to visit their convicted mothers, depending on the circumstances.

  • Man found dead in tine mine lagoon

    Man found dead in tine mine lagoon

    PHUKET: Police are attempting to identify the body of a man found floating in an old tin mine lagoon in Chalong yesterday afternoon. Phuket Ruamjai Foundation rescue workers and Lt Col Boonlert Onklang arrived along with officers from the Chalong Police to find a large crowd of people gathered at the scene on Luang Por Chuang Road.

  • Two-day booze ban in effect in Phuket from tomorrow

    Two-day booze ban in effect in Phuket from tomorrow

    PHUKET: Retail sales of alcohol will banned in Phuket tomorrow and Friday, when Buddhists will celebrate Asarnha Bucha Day and Khao Pansa Day, the start of Buddhist Lent. Provincial Police Deputy Commander Peerayut Karajedee confirmed to the Phuket Gazette today that alcohol sales will be banned on both days under the Prohibition of Alcoholic Beverage Sales Act of 2009

  • Phuket man rescued from dire drunk dozing decision

    Phuket man rescued from dire drunk dozing decision

    PHUKET: A drunken man chose an exceptionally bad place to sleep off the effects of alcohol over the weekend: in the middle of the busiest and most deadly road in Phuket.

  • Drug rehab youths escape facility after friend beaten to death

    Drug rehab youths escape facility after friend beaten to death

    PHUKET: More than 200 youths escaped from the drug rehabilitation center at Por Noh Klong Gom School and sought the protection of a local mosque in Krabi on Thursday after one of their classmates was allegedly beaten to death by teaching assistants. The school, although in Krabi, serves as a drug rehabilitation center for about 800 troubled youths from throughout Southern Thailand, most from the border provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala

  • Phuket gold shop damaged in youth street brawl

    Phuket gold shop damaged in youth street brawl

    PHUKET: A group of eight students attacked two others in front of a gold shop in the heart of Phuket Town yesterday morning. The attack, at about 10:15am, was launched in front of a hardware and electronics store on Ong Sim Pai Road in front of Kaset Market

  • Fire rips through car parts warehouse in Patong

    Fire rips through car parts warehouse in Patong

    PHUKET: A fire believed to have been started by an electrical fault destroyed a car parts warehouse in Patong this afternoon. No one was reported injured in the blaze, but the damage caused has been estimated at around 100,000 baht.

  • Phuket Architect & Engineering Exhibition 2012 underway

    Phuket Architect & Engineering Exhibition 2012 underway

    PHUKET: Good news for the island’s builders, designers and property owners: the Architect & Engineering Exhibition 2012 is now underway on the second floor of the Royal Phuket City Hotel. The event runs daily from 11am to 8pm though Sunday, featuring a number of exhibitions and booths showcasing products from more than 100 manufactures and importers.

  • Project to reverse Patong traffic flow hits a speed bump

    Project to reverse Patong traffic flow hits a speed bump

    PHUKET: A long-awaited plan to reverse the direction of one-way traffic flow in Patong was expected to